Niels Hofmans
Head Of Cyber at ironPeak services
Brussels Metropolitan Area Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolNiels Hofmans is a communicative cybersecurity leader with 13 years of hands-on experience across red and blue team disciplines, cloud security, and compliance. As Head of Cyber at Cresco and former Head of Security & IT at Intigriti, he has led incident response, threat detection, application security, and large-scale SOC/SIEM programs while overseeing ISO27001, SOC2 and NIS2 efforts. He combines executive leadership with tinkering instincts—freelancing on code and contributing to open-source tooling such as IPTV proxy improvements—so he stays close to engineering realities. His background spans banking, logistics, and platform security, giving him a practical edge in protecting high-risk consumer and enterprise systems. Based in Brussels, he also founded a phishing-awareness and attack-surface monitoring startup, demonstrating entrepreneurial drive alongside consultancy experience. Colleagues know him for translating complex risks into actionable security programs that balance technical rigor with business priorities.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied IT Network and System Administration/Administrator, Bachelor of Applied IT Network and System Administration/Administrator at UC Leuven-Limburg
English, French, Dutch
Stackoverflow
100reputation
5kreached
3answers
10questions
Github Skills (17)
command-line-arguments10
go10
deadcode10
golang10
iptv10
legacy-code10
deprecated10
apidoc8
api8
google-cloud-pubsub6
docker6
chartjs6
github6
google-app-engine6
java6
Programming languages (33)
Github contributions (5)
tellytv/telly
Feb 2018 - Aug 2018
An IPTV proxy
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:59 commits, 18 PRs, 21 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Niels primarily focused on refactoring and improving the IPTV proxy's codebase. They addressed deprecated functionalities, specifically related to command-line arguments such as `-file`, and migrated to the `-playlist` argument. Several commits updated the codebase, including the removal of obsolete arguments and the addition of better request logging. These modifications improved the usability and maintainability of the application.
golangproxyplexgoiptv
hazcod/hazcod.github.io
Jan 2017 - Apr 2019
A brazen two-column theme for Jekyll.
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
jekylljekyll-theme
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